Illuminated embossed paper and process of producing the same



(No Modl.)

P; HAKE.

ILLUMINATED EMBOSSED PAPER AND PROCESS OF BRODUQINGIHE SAME. No. 449,675. Patented Apr. '7, 1891.

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PHILIPP HAKE, OF HOBOKEN, NEIV JERSEY.

ILLUMINATED EMBOSSED PAPER AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,675, dated April '7, 1891.

Application filed May 23, 1890.

To aZZ whont it may concern:

Be itknown that. I, PHILIP]? HARE, a resident of I-Ioboken, Hudson county, New J ersey, haveinvented an Improved Illuminated Embossed Paper and Process of Producing the Same, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, forming a part hereof,wherein Figure 1 represents a face View of a sheet of note-paper constructed according to my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views showing the manner of spraying the embossed paper.

This invention relates to a new illuminated and embossed paper and to a new process by which the desired effect is obtained; and it consists, first, of embossed paper which has color applied along one edge of the embossing and along the surface nearest said edge in manner different from the color applied at the opposite edge and the surface nearest thereto; and it also consists in the process of producing this effect, which process consists in spraying the paper by suitable spraying apparatus held obliquely toward one edge of the embossing on said paper, applying the color to that edge and to the surfaces adjoining that edge, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a suitable sheet of paper, which by suitable mechanism is embossed at B to represent a desired raised design. After the embossing of the paper I apply by means of a suitable atomizer D a spray of colored liquid to this embossed portion B, holding the spout or nozzle of the atomizer inclined toward one edge of the embossed paper B, as shown in Fig. 2. By this means I apply the color to the edge of the embossed paper which is nearest the atomizer and to the surfaces of the embossed paper nearest said edge, the effect of the spray becoming gradually diffused at a distance from the edge in question. The result of this process is an embossed paper showing an illuminated effectthat is to say,

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showing the embossed portion to have a peculiar effect of light and color when looked at from one side and an entirely different eifect when looked at from another side. This effect may be increased or modified at pleasure by the use of more than one color.

In Fig. 3 I have represented two atomizers, one D for spraying the embossed paper B near one edge and another atomizer D for spraying the embossed paper with a different color near the opposite edge, both atomizers being held inclined while in use. Of course the best results will be obtained if one of these atomizers is first used and after that the other. The embossed portion of the paper may be partly gilded or tinted in the usual manner before the oblique spraying is ap plied.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The paper A, having embossed portion B, and the coloring-matter applied at one edge of said embossed portion and to the surfaces adjoining said edge, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The process herein described of illuminating or tinting embossed paper, which process consists in spraying said paper obliquely along one edge of the embossed portion thereof and along the surfaces nearest said edge, substantially as herein specified.

3. The process of illumninating or tinting embossed paper, which process consists in first spraying said paper with one coloralong one edge and the adjoining surfaces of the embossed portion of the paper, and in then spraying witha different color another edge of the adjoining surfaces of the embossed portion of said paper, producing a design shaded in two or more colors, substantially as herein specified.

PHILIPP HAKE.

\Vitnesses:

HARRY M. TURK, GUSTAV SOHNEPPE. 

